Fellowships and Awards

2024 Distinguished Article Award, Section on Sociology of Religion, American Sociological Association

2022 Best Scholarly Article Award (honorable mention), Section on Global and Transnational Sociology, American Sociological Association

2022 National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend Award ($6,000)

2013 American Council of Learned Societies, Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship ($33,000)

2013 Council for European Studies, Mellon/CES Dissertation Completion Fellowship, ($25,000—declined)

2011 Fulbright-Hays/IIE, Graduate Fellowship for International Study ($30,000)

2011 Wenner-Gren Foundation, Dissertation Fieldwork Grant ($20,000)

2010 Council for European Studies, Mellon Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship ($5,000)

2007 Social Science Research Council, Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship ($5,000)

2004 International Institute for Political and Economic Studies, Georgetown University Summer School, Greece ($3,000)

NYUAD

2025 Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World, NYUAD Institute, NYU Abu Dhabi ($2,000)

2023 Provost’s Office, Publication Grant for the book manuscript “Pious Politics: Cultural Foundations of the Islamist Movement in Turkey,”

NYU Abu Dhabi ($5,000)

2019 NYUAD Institute, Conference Grant for “Theorizing Social Change: Policies, Institutions, Culture Conference,” NYU Abu Dhabi ($45,000)

UCLA

2012 UCLA College of Letters and Sciences, Russian/Eurasian Studies Fellowship ($18,000)

2010 UCLA Alumni Association Fellowship ($18,000)

2008 UCLA Center for World Languages, Summer Fellowship for the Study of Intensive Arabic ($2,000)

2006–2008 UC-Berkeley Institute of European Studies, Entering Graduate Student Fellowship in Modern European Studies ($15,000)

2006–2008 International Institute, Global Scholars Fellowship ($10,000)

2006–2008 College of Letters and Sciences, Shirley and Ralph Shapiro International Student Fellowship ($10,000)

2006 Department of Sociology, Departmental Fellowship ($18,000)